R. m. KELLOaO'S GREAT CROPS OF 
at fruiting- time. It should be allowed to 
hanjj on the bushe.-s until fully ripe, when 
its flavor i.s very delicious. Season the lat- 
est. 30c per doz.. S1.25 per 100 and $7.00 per 
1,000. 
Ohio and Miami are the same. Their 
season follows the Palmer, and they have 
long- been known as the old standards. We 
have taken pains to re.strict them and build 
up a strong- fruiting vigor. For evaporating- 
thej' have no equal. 30c per doz.. SI. 25 per 
100 and S6.00 per 1,000. 
Karliai't, An ever bearing variety of 
much value. It bears a heavy crop at the 
usual time (medium early) and then in Sep- 
tember ripens another large crop of tine 
berries if the .season is generally moist 
through Aug-ust. It is difficult to propagate 
on account of being loaded with berries, and 
there being a great demand for plants the 
price remains high. SOc per doz. and $4.( 0 
per 100. 
Noiiialia strongly resembles the Gregg 
but is reported from every point as more 
hardy. It is a great favorite in the north- 
west and Wisconsin. 30c per doz., SI. 25 per 
100 and $7.00 per 1,000. 
PioilotT (Progress), an early hardy vari- 
ety. Berries medium size, very productive, 
and being largely set in many localities. 30c 
per doz., $1.25 per 100 and $7.00 per 1,000. 
Mliskiii^'lllli. A -new variety resem- 
bling Shaffer's Colossal. It originated in 
Ohio, where it is very largelj- grown on 
account of its great productiveness. Berries 
purple, good size and rich flavor. Season 
late. 30c per doz., $1.50 per 100 and S8.00 
per 1,000. 
RED VAKIETIES. 
The cultivation is the same as black caps 
except they should never be pinched back. 
The buds are not so strong on the laterals, 
and do not produce as good berries as those 
on the main canes. By cutting oft' the upper 
third of the cane at the winter pruning all 
the buds will be left that are desirable. 
The plantation will last longer and fruit 
better. Treat all suckers as weeds. It soon 
spoils a fruiting bed to cut the roots in dig- 
ging up plants. 
The Haii.st'll which has long been re- 
jfarded, and we have recommended it, as the 
best extra early red, but careful tests show 
that the Thompson's Earlj' is superior in 
vigor and fruitfulness and ripens at the 
iiame sea.son, and we shall di.scard it 
in favor of the Thomp.son. 30c per doz., 
$1.25 per 100 and $8.00 per 1,000. 
Tli<nn|)soii's Karly is now acknowledged 
as the best extra early red berry. Its supe- 
rior qualities are vigor and hardiness of cane 
and bud, good size and firmness of berries. 
Bright color and a good shipper. It will 
supersede Hansell. Ripens with Enhance 
strawberries. 40c per doz., $1.25 per 100 
and$,S.OO per 1,000. 
Th<' Marlboro comes next in sea.son and 
will probably long hold that place. Berries 
are good size and firm so they can be 
shipped any reasonable distance. 30c per 
doz., SI.. =50 per 100 and $7.00 per 1,000. 
The Cutlibert is still the queen of the 
market and the best shipping berry grown. 
Berries are large, of bright color (unless over- 
ripe), firm and of excellent quality. Season 
the latest. 30c per doz., $1.25 per 100 and 
$7.00 per 1,000. 
(ro!<l<-ii Same as Cuthbert ex- 
cept in color. It is undoubtedly a sport of 
that variety. Color bright golden j'ellow. 
When canned is most beautiful and takes 
the ribbon at the fairs. Not so good for 
shipping as it takes on an unsightly appear- 
ance several days after it has been picked. 
30c per doz., $1.25 per 100 and $7.00 per 
1,000. 
The T..0114I011. A new variety that is 
rated higher than any red berry introduced 
since the Cuthbert. It is superior to that 
g-rand old berry. It is finer in quality, more 
hardy in cane and much more productive. 
It is surely the coming market berry. 40c 
each and $3.25 per doz. 
BLACKBERRIES. 
Blackberries are a great money crop when 
rightly managed. The demand for this lu.s- 
cious fruit is not supplied in one town in a 
hundred, and even then, as grown by ninety- 
nine out of a hundred, they are poor in 
quality and the consumption is far below 
what it would be if the berries were properly 
grown. 
It is, as in the case of ra.spberries, a com- 
mon practice to fruit a field eight to ten 
years, and when the plantation is .so worn 
out, diseased and exhausted that it will not 
fruit longer, shoots or suckers are taken 
from between the rows to start a new planta- 
tion, and as explained in raspberries and 
strawberries, the disease and weakness is in 
the roots and goes to the new plantation. 
Such a field yields, as you will find amcjng 
fruit growers, from fifty to seventy-five 
bushels per acre — a method of growing 
which actuallj' throws away more than one 
hundred bushels per acre. 
All aer«' of $>-oo(I land started with 
plants propagated as I shall hereafter ex- 
plain, should always yield from two to three 
hundred bushels per acre, of such a grade of 
fruit that would sell fnmi two to four cents 
per quart more than common berries. 
It should be free from disease and all 
exhaustion. This is accomplished by select- 
ing the most vigorous and healthy bushes. 
Uig them up and cut the roots in pieces 
about three inches long, callous these dur- 
ing the winter months, and plant in nursery 
rows in the spring. Every diseased or de- 
fective root will fail to grow. Under no 
circumstances should the roots be taken from 
a plant more than two years old. 
Ill tin- fall the plaiit.s are again taken 
up and roots shortened to about ten inches 
and placed in clean sand in a callousing 
cellar and kept at a degree of cold exactly 
even at all times and within three degrees 
of freezing point. Innumerable callouses will 
form all along the sides of the roots, and 
great numbers at the ends where the roots 
have been cut off, and when .set out in the 
spring, roots emit from these callouses and 
